Starbucks Launches Recall of Bodum Coffee Presses After Injury Reports
May 01 2019 - 5:39PM
Dow Jones News
By Micah Maidenberg
Starbucks Corp. is voluntarily recalling a coffee press it sold
for more than two years after receiving reports about it breaking
during use, causing cuts and puncture wounds.
The Seattle-based coffee chain is recalling about 263,200 of the
presses in the U.S. and Canada, according to information from U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission. Starbucks sold the Bodum
presses online or in its stores between November 2016 and this past
January.
Consumers use such presses to brew coffee, adding ground beans
and hot water in a cylindrical pot and then pushing a screen down
over the grounds using a plunger.
But a knob on the plunger on the presses Starbucks now is
recalling has broken for some customers, causing injuries,
according to the consumer products safety agency. Starbucks has
received eight reports of the plunger knob breaking in the U.S. and
one such report in Canada.
Starbucks sold the presses for about $20 each.
Starbucks will offer store credit for returns, implying a cost
of about $5.3 million for the company. The coffee chain decided to
recall the product out of an abundance of caution for its customers
and employees, a Starbucks spokesman said.
Shares of Starbucks ticked lower on Wednesday, closing at
$77.52.
Starbucks said it can't accept the presses in its stores and
wants owners of the presses to call it or visit its website to
receive instructions about how to return the product.
A spokeswoman for Bodum, which made the presses, couldn't
immediately be reached for comment.
Write to Micah Maidenberg at micah.maidenberg@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 01, 2019 17:24 ET (21:24 GMT)
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